Nick Barnes

Nick Barnes is an Associate Investigator with our Centre. He received a PhD in computer vision for robot navigation in 1999 from the University of Melbourne. He was a visiting research fellow at the LIRA-Lab at the University of Genoa, Italy, supported by an Achiever Award from the Queens’ Trust for Young Australians before returning to Australia to lecture at the University of Melbourne, before joining NICTA’s Canberra Research Laboratory, now known as Data61@CSIRO.

He is currently a senior principal researcher and research group leader in computer vision for Data61 and ab Adjunct Associate Professor with the Australian National University. His research interests include visual dynamic scene analysis, wearable sensing, vision for low vision assistance, computational models of biological vision, feature detection, vision for vehicle guidance and medical image analysis.